Political Psychology Final Exam
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- 1.The Phrase Tabula Rasa is latin for what?
- A.
Conditioning
- B.
Behavior
- C.
The Clear Mind
- D.
The Blank Slate
- 2.Which of the following schools of thought would be most likely to subscribe to the notion of the tabula rasa?
- A.
Dispositionism
- B.
Milgram's School of situationism
- C.
Behaviorism
- D.
Supporters of the idea that people are born genetically 'wired' with certain attributes
- 3.What was the first main 'wave' in the study of political psychology?
- A.
Foreign-Policy decision making
- B.
International Politics
- C.
Personality Studies
- D.
Voting Behavior
- 4.The existence of 'whistleblowers' like Clive Ponting and Joseph Derby is used in the main class text as testimony to the power of:
- A.
Situationism
- B.
Bounded Rationality
- C.
Dispositionism
- D.
Moral Cowardice
- 5.The notion that our behavior is 'fixed at birth' is most compatible with which of the following?
- A.
Behaviorism
- B.
Eugenics
- C.
Situationism
- D.
Bounded Rationality
- 6.The character of 'Frazier' in the novel Walden Two was:
- A.
A thinly-disguised version of Anthony Burgess himself
- B.
An obvious vehicle for Kelsey Grammar
- C.
A strong critic of behaviorism
- D.
A thinly-disguised version of B.F. Skinner himself
- 7.The tendency of bomber pilots to concentrate on the technical aspects of their tasks, portrayed in the film hearts and minds, was compared in class to what?
- A.
The behavior of 'Little Albert'
- B.
The behavior of Stanley Milgram's obedient subjects
- C.
The behavior of B.F. Skinner's pigeons
- D.
The behavior of Stanley Milgram's disobedient subjects
- 8.With Which of the following statements would a behavorist argue?
- A.
It is impossible to decide what should be 'conditioned out' of human beings
- B.
The social benefits of conditioning are outweighed by the costs
- C.
The notion of 'free will' is an illusion
- D.
Conditioning may be the road to fascism
- 9.Solomon Asch's line experiments are generally supportive of which position?
- A.
Situationism
- B.
Behaviorism
- C.
Dispositionism
- D.
Anarchism
- 10.The idea that decision-makers 'maximize their utility' is associated with which approach discussed in class?
- A.
Cognitive consistency theory
- B.
Homo Economicus
- C.
Schema Theory
- D.
Satisficing
- 11.The segment of the film in search of ourselves which we watched in class portrays which of the following?
- A.
The early tug of war between eugenics and behaviorism
- B.
Behaviorism alone
- C.
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments
- D.
Eugenics alone
- 12.In the Milgram obedience experiments, the supposed 'subject' who received the 'electrical shocks' was in fact:
- A.
The real subject of the experiment
- B.
Milgram himself
- C.
An accomplice of the experimenter
- D.
Someone who had no idea what the real purpose of the experiment was
- 13.What theory did Milgram's findings in the 1960s do most to discredit?
- A.
Schema theory
- B.
Satisficing
- C.
Situationism
- D.
Authoritarian personality theory
- 14.'Dispositionism' is best defined as the argument that:
- A.
Our behavior is shaped by forces beyond our control
- B.
Our own psychological values and beliefs shape our behavior
- C.
'The situation' affects our behavior somewhat
- D.
We often quickly dispose of arguments we disagree with
- 15.In class we argued that Oskar Schindler was a rather unusual 'rescuer' because:
- A.
His behavior in other areas of life wasn't particularly ethical
- B.
He was himself Jewish
- C.
He did not believe in dispositionism himself
- D.
He was an especially close friend of Adolf Eichmann
- 16.Which of the following events led to the discovery of the 'bystander effect'?
- A.
The Cuban missile crisis
- B.
9/11
- C.
The murder of Kitty Genovese
- D.
Solomon Asch's experiments
- 17.Operant conditioning deals with the learning of:
- A.
Voluntary responses
- B.
Reflexes
- C.
Salivation
- D.
All of the above
- 18.The phrase 'banality of evil' was created by:
- A.
Stanley Milgram in Obedience to Authority
- B.
Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem
- C.
Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange
- D.
B.F. Skinner in Walden Two
- 19.Herbert Simon disputed the notion that individuals are fully rational in the sense assumed in many economic models. What concept did he develop instead to describe how individuals reason in the real world?
- A.
Non-rationality
- B.
Comprehensive rationality
- C.
Bounded rationality
- D.
Irrational rationality
- 20.How much difference did gender make to the behavior of Milgram's subjects in his famous obedience experiments?
- A.
Men were substantially more likely than women to obey authority
- B.
Men were slightly more likely than women to obey authority
- C.
Women were more likely than men to obey authority
- D.
Gender made no difference
- 21.Which of the following were used early in the class to illustrate the power of situational pressures?
- A.
The murder of Kitty Genovese
- B.
The Challenger disaster
- C.
Obedience among ordinary Germans during the Holocaust
- D.
All of the above
- 22.The example of the soccer player George Best is used in the textbook primarily to show:
- A.
The effectiveness of classical conditioning
- B.
The fact that conditioning often fails
- C.
The moral problems associated with conditioning
- D.
The effectiveness of operant conditioning
- 23.The working conditions of Adolf Eichmann were compared to what in class?
- A.
Those of Oskar Schindler
- B.
The way in which obedience fell when tasks were parceled out in Milgram's experiments
- C.
The way in which obedience rose when tasks were parceled out in Milgram's experiments
- D.
Those of Hannah Arendt
- 24.What happens when the 'ego' is threatened, according to Sigmund Freud?
- A.
We allow the id free rein
- B.
We resort to the superego
- C.
We resort to defense mechanism
- D.
We become conscious of all our unconscious processes
- 25.According to the class textbook, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was intended in large part to be:
- A.
A defense of behaviorism
- B.
A defense of violence
- C.
An essay on the benefits of classical conditioning in particular
- D.
An attack upon behaviorism
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